Saturday, January 23, 2016

From press text:KAZUNA TAGUCHI you are a mirror, reflecting me21st of January– 2nd of April 2016

"Using existing images such as magazine, newspaper
and found photo clippings as her motif, Kazuna Taguchi paints anonymous,
imaginary women and still lifes with astonishing realism. She then
photographs the resulting acrylic painting and, after a patient
operation in the darkroom, produces a photograph which will be shown as
the final work. Standing in front of her skilfully finished photographic
print, a viewer will feel the strange yet irresistible sense of reality
in the image. Her works veil the marks of her brushwork, and their
photographic aura makes some of the portraits feel like pages from a
magazine fashion spread. But in another sense, the ambiguity of their
surface – is it a photo or not? is it canvas or paper? – positions
Kazuna Taguchi as an artist who is not primarily satisfied with obvious
readings of her outcomes." – Excerpt from an essay by Philip Brophy